Keith Harper

Keith is a management consultant and trainer, who for the last 10 years has focused his attention solely on law firms. He has a wide range of clients, from small partnerships to international firms whom he has successfully helped to develop management skills and create and implement business strategies.

After graduating in economics from Birmingham University, Keith built a wealth of practical business and management experience working in a series of senior management roles in large corporations, before becoming a director of a legal training provider (now part of the BPP group). Whilst developing and delivering management development programmes for solicitors, he gained a real insight into how to apply management ideas and techniques to the legal profession. With this experience he set up his own practice (Harper Professional www.harperprofessional.com) in 2000. Keith regularly writes articles on law firm management issues, and speaks at conferences and events. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and a member of the Law Society Law Management Section.